{"product_id":"an-anthropology-of-the-subject-9780520225879","title":"An Anthropology of the Subject","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn studying the human subject and the way the human culture mirrors itself, the author redefines holography as \"the exact equivalence, or comprehensive identity, of part and whole in any human contingency\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roy Wagner is a one-of-a-kind anthropologist whose books provide intense intellectual stimulation. His way of connecting the world of New Guinea to the world of anthropology is unique and, well, mind-blowing.... He writes books that you actually want to and will read more than once.\" - Steven Feld, author of Sound and Sentiment \"Wagner asks, daringly, what it would be like to imagine one of the most significant of human activities, the activity of description or representation, as a self-scaling phenomenon.... One begins to glimpse a genuine 'alternative anthropology.\" - Marilyn Strathern, author of The Gender of the Gift\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS \u003cbr\u003e PREFACE \u003cbr\u003e ABSTRACT OF THE ARGUMENT \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003e I. THE HUMAN HOLOGRAM\u003cbr\u003e 1. To Be Caught in Indra's Net \u003cbr\u003e 2. Where Is the Meaning in a Trope? \u003cbr\u003e 3. A Sociality Reperceived \u003cbr\u003e 4. Our Sense of Their Humor: Their Sense of Ours\u003cbr\u003e II. THE TRAP OF !CONICITY\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Story of Eve\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Icon of Incest\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Queen's Daughter and the King's Son\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Consumer Consumed\u003cbr\u003e III. THE ECHO-SUBJECT\u003cbr\u003e 9. Echolocation\u003cbr\u003e 10. Imaginary Spaces\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Cakra ofJohann Christian Bach\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Near-Life Experience\u003cbr\u003e IV. CAKRA\u003cbr\u003e 13. Reinventing the Wheel\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Physical Education of the Wheel\u003cbr\u003e 15. Sex in a Mirror\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Single Shape of Metaphor in All Things\u003cbr\u003e GLOSSARY OF UNFAMILIAR CONCEPTS\u003cbr\u003e NOTES\u003cbr\u003e INDEX\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359045157207,"sku":"9780520225879","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520225879.jpg?v=1754123354","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-anthropology-of-the-subject-9780520225879","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}